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I been hacked. All my slaves gone.
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Apr 12, 2022 14:10
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Please collapse in brilliant fashion and don't just peter out.
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Apr 12, 2022 15:12
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Lotta kidneys getting traded for company bitcoin scrip.
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Apr 12, 2022 23:45
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Oh no the serfs are leaving my crypto-fiefdom
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Apr 13, 2022 00:45
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Wikipedia votes to ditch crypto donations 232 to 94. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations
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Apr 13, 2022 10:16
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BBC reports that Virgil "Romanpoet" Griffith, a former Ethereum developer, has been sentenced to more than five years jail (CoinDesk reports the exact sentence is 63 months, with ten months of his pre-trial detention considered time served), plus a $100k fine, for travelling to North Korea without the approval of either the State Department or the Ethereum Foundation to give a presentation on Blockchain tech in Pyongyang, providing information that could be used to evade sanctions.CoinDesk posted:Judge Castel read a series of text messages and emails from Griffith in which the defendant admits to sharing information with North Korea for the express purpose of helping the repressive Kim regime evade sanctions. He was facing a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison and a million-dollar fine.
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Apr 13, 2022 10:44
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Coindesk posted:What the judge found most damning, perhaps, was a photo of Griffith presenting at the conference, wearing a traditional North Korean suit and standing in front of a blackboard on which it read “No sanctions!” with a smiley face. AHAHAHAHAHA now that is a lmao right there
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Apr 13, 2022 11:13
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Apr 13, 2022 11:28
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The Kins posted:What the judge found most damning, perhaps, was a photo of Griffith presenting at the conference, wearing a traditional North Korean suit and standing in front of a blackboard on which it read “No sanctions!” with a smiley face. 
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Apr 13, 2022 13:06
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Apr 13, 2022 13:21
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Found in another thread: Sagacity posted:Looks like NFTs are still a very good idea and the future of art! The comments stretch on and on and on, just full of people gushing about how beautiful and thought-provoking is, and it's kind of making me feel like I am losing my goddamn mind as they treat it like a pinnacle of human expression. I mean, I guess this by itself is fine. But why the hell is the bar just set so low for art when it comes to NFTs? I know this isn't a new observation for a long shot, but I am still absolutely astounded by just how much of it is absolute dogshit.
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Apr 13, 2022 14:51
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IBroughttheFunk posted:Found in another thread: quote:NFTs are the human capacity for visual expression as understood by the guy at the vape store.
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Apr 13, 2022 14:54
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It's all a mix of noveau riche having the worst taste in the world as ever, computer touchers who've never engaged in anything artful since saturday morning cartoons and maybe anime, and that the people who go on about this poo poo have a vested interest in elevating the profile of anything being called a NFT so they'll act like it's breathtakingly moving.
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Apr 13, 2022 15:10
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i think it's funny that that guy's calling himself a medici
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Apr 13, 2022 15:23
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seems kinda sus that it's only after big government got rid of lead pipes and gas that large swaths of the adult population started clapping and gurgling anytime they saw videogame aesthetics outside a videogame 🤔
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Apr 13, 2022 15:28
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Jesus Christ this person paid a million dollars in internet money for a Buzzfeed GIF.
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Apr 13, 2022 15:31
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How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site lol that crypto is now also responsible for these fuckers ruining themselves criminally in addition to financially. In case the headline wasn't clear enough, they keep details very light but it still contains mention of CSAM. Just some of the most truly vile and monstrous people in the world in this article.
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Apr 13, 2022 15:53
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IBroughttheFunk posted:Found in another thread: It's... It's just Scribblenauts fanart But hey, glad to see my extension that replaces all hexagonal profile pictures with Jared Fogel is working great!
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Apr 13, 2022 16:28
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:seems kinda sus that it's only after big government got rid of lead pipes and gas that large swaths of the adult population started clapping and gurgling anytime they saw videogame aesthetics outside a videogame 🤔 Microplastics are the new lead.
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Apr 13, 2022 16:32
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So he just paid 1 million bux for a tiny version of the opening from Up? lol
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Apr 13, 2022 17:19
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Stefan Prodan posted:So he just paid 1 million bux for a tiny version of the opening from Up? lol No he paid 1 million bux for a LINK to a tiny version of the opening from Up stored on a server he does not at all own, lol
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Apr 13, 2022 17:34
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Don’t be ridiculous, the dude in Up never had kids.
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Apr 13, 2022 18:03
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It's going to cost the "artist" $2M in gas/transfer/convenience/carbon credits/tips/ransom to cash out all those spacebucks.
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Apr 13, 2022 18:36
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NFT art seems like a cargo cult understanding of "death of the artist"
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Apr 13, 2022 18:46
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Im pretty drat sure that Animaniacs or Tiny Toons had a more nuanced take on "life = born, school, work, have kid, die" than that animation.
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Apr 13, 2022 18:51
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I'm the commenters from that thread absolutely being reduced to a weeping wreck at the last 30 second sequence of Zardoz, in the cave
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Apr 13, 2022 19:16
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Olanphonia posted:How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site lol that crypto is now also responsible for these fuckers ruining themselves criminally in addition to financially. "..millions of cryptocurrency transactions eternally preserved in amber, and the golden age of criminal forensics it presented to any investigator ready to excavate them." In fact, if we go back and read the bitcoin whitepaper, "golden age of criminal forensics" is right in there! 
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Apr 13, 2022 19:17
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The Kins posted:BBC reports that Virgil "Romanpoet" Griffith, a former Ethereum developer, has been sentenced to more than five years jail (CoinDesk reports the exact sentence is 63 months, with ten months of his pre-trial detention considered time served), plus a $100k fine, for travelling to North Korea without the approval of either the State Department or the Ethereum Foundation to give a presentation on Blockchain tech in Pyongyang, providing information that could be used to evade sanctions. I briefly knew this dude in college and this is way less surprising than I'd expected. Also check out the reality TV show about nerds he was on if you're ever really bored.
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Apr 13, 2022 19:46
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very very solid investment https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1514314671108591621
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Apr 13, 2022 20:16
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Diva Cupcake posted:very very solid investment I wish people would stop misrepresenting this. The top bid is now $466.73! Only a $2,899,533.27 loss.
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Apr 13, 2022 20:20
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Shifty Pony posted:Im pretty drat sure that Animaniacs or Tiny Toons had a more nuanced take on "life = born, school, work, have kid, die" than that animation. I vaguely remember an Xbox ad where a guy is born flies through the air and then lands in a grave with the slogan "life is short, play more". I remember women who'd had undergone miscarriages complained that it was insensitive.
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Apr 13, 2022 20:36
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Olanphonia posted:How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site lol that crypto is now also responsible for these fuckers ruining themselves criminally in addition to financially. This is a very good and loving BLEAK read.
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Apr 13, 2022 20:36
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Schir posted:i think it's funny that that guy's calling himself a medici He's a straight grifter in so many ways. I can't tell you how bad it is outside of literally taking Snoop's name behind it and that all that money was made on the backs of other people, and other projects.
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Apr 13, 2022 20:42
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Lumbermouth posted:This is a very good and loving BLEAK read. Yeah I would say either read it or don't, you won't want to stop partway even though all the details are horrible. Tl;dr they got some bad guys this time.
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Apr 13, 2022 20:47
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I feel sorry for the IRS guys who were like "you know there's probably a lot of crime in crypto, and it's all stored on the blockchain, let's start looking" and found... This
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Apr 14, 2022 04:53
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Diva Cupcake posted:very very solid investment The comments do often seem to degenerate into crypto bros going 'That's coming, infrastructure is being built'
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Isentropy posted:I feel sorry for the IRS guys who were like "you know there's probably a lot of crime in crypto, and it's all stored on the blockchain, let's start looking" and found... This The article goes into it, but what happened was - the british police nicked someone for sex offenses - in the process of investigating that guy, they found out about the "welcome to video" site - they told a guy at the national crime agency about it - that guy told someone at a company the agency works with that does blockchain transaction analysis for law enforcement - that guy (the blockchain analysis guy) told a couple of people he knew at the IRS - they decided to have a go and see whether they could tackle it As to them not knowing what they were getting into, that's definitely true. There's a bit in the article where one of the IRS guys is saying, well I thought it was going to be people loving 16 year olds, that kind of thing. But then he finds out it's much grimmer than that. If anything the thing I took away from it is that combatting of this kind of thing online is pretty weak. Look at that chain of bullet points I wrote above, it's pretty much serendipity that it got dealt with at the speed it did. And towards the end of the article you find out that the German police had apparently been trying to get the site dealt with for some time but had been failing to get any leverage with the Koreans because they didn't have personal relationships with anyone in Korea! That's funny on one level, because the (unfair) national stereotype I have in my head of Germans is that they are hard-working, efficient robot-people who would absolutely be flummoxed by the Koreans not reacting the way they expected to a matter-of-fact approach saying here's this site you should take down, here's why, etc. But it's also awful because why did something so important only go ahead because some American investigator happened to have built personal relationships with the Korean authorities? One thing is clear though, this article is the new go-to for any time anyone expresses doubts about whether Bitcoin is used to buy and sell child porn.
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Apr 14, 2022 09:24
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Hammerite posted:One thing is clear though, this article is the new go-to for any time anyone expresses doubts about whether Bitcoin is used to buy and sell child porn. I thought just pointing out that libertarians are involved was enough evidence.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I thought just pointing out that libertarians are involved was enough evidence. One of the investigators interviewed for the article wondered about that too. the article posted:He found that the mere mention of child exploitation seemed to evaporate the cryptocurrency industry’s usual resistance to government intervention. “As libertarian as you want to be,” Gambaryan says, “this is where everybody kind of drew the line.” Even before he sent a formal legal request or subpoena, staff at all three exchanges were ready to help.
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